Short Report on the Microfluidic Flow of Dyed Ethylene Glycol

Authors

  • Subhadeep Mukhopadhyay Assistant Professor, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, National Institute of Technology Arunachal Pradesh, Yupia, District-Papum Pare, Arunachal Pradesh, India

Keywords:

Maskless lithography, Ethylene glycol, Capillary flow, Nano fluidics

Abstract

In this experimental work, a single polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) microfluidic device as gradual expansion microchannel is fabricated by maskless lithography, hot embossing lithography and direct bonding technique. Dyed ethylene glycol is prepared and used as working liquid in this work. A CMOS camera is used to capture the passive microfluidic flow of dyed ethylene glycol in the fabricated microfluidic device. Nano fluidics is the nano-scale fluid mechanics in nanotechnology. In future, this work may be useful to establish the nanofluidic flow characteristics in nano fluidics with the theoretical and experimental validation.

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2021-09-23

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Vol. 8 No. 2 (2021)

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